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RQ Encounter Tool 101 Part 2 - Creating NPC's and Parties

Here is a visual guide how to create NPC's with RQ Encounter Tool.

This second guide concentrates on how to create NPC's and parties. It gives a stepwise example of creating both basic and stronger NPC's for a barbarian campaign. The example is for Sartar and Orlanthi but would be widely applicable to most campaigns.

https://notesfrompavis.wordpress.com/2015/02/01/rq-encounter-tool-101-part-2-creating-npcs-and-parties/

RQ Encounter Tool 101 Part 2 - Creating NPC's and Parties

Here is a visual guide how to create NPC's with RQ Encounter Tool.

This second guide concentrates on how to create NPC's and parties. It gives a stepwise example of creating both basic and stronger NPC's for a barbarian campaign. The example is for Sartar and Orlanthi but would be widely applicable to most campaigns.

https://notesfrompavis.wordpress.com/2015/02/01/rq-encounter-tool-101-part-2-creating-npcs-and-parties/

RQ6 Encounter Tool 101 - Finding and generating your enemies 

RQ6 Encounter Tool 101 - Finding and generating your enemies 

RQ Encounter goes to town to check out the taverns and bars

RQ Encounter tool has been enhanced with new tools for building taverns.  We received a permission from Johnn Four of the fabulous RoleplayingTips.com to extend our taverns with the tables from his GM Mastery Book Three: Adventure Essentials: Inns & Taverns. He is offering 100% off the PDF version of Inns & Taverns

There is now Tavern Names - Ports and Tavern Names - Cities feature table to provide names for the bars. Room Quirks provide varying quirky rooms and Tavern Themes can be used to set a theme for the bar.

There are now also RQ6 rules for getting drunk in the taverns - this was based on Sebastian Jansson's excellent suggestion at the design mechanism forum.

State of intoxication table has been added and you can see its effects on any of the drunk members in the bars.

Taverns and bars also have a drink menu automatically generated for various strengths of drink.

Tavern Names, Tavern Themes, Room Quirks and many of the added "Activities at bar" inspired by "GM Mastery: Inns & Taverns Essentials" and used with permission of Johnn Four of RolePlayingTips These have been tuned a bit to fit a RuneQuest/Glorantha context.

All of the current establishments (bar templates) have been updated with the above

List of new things

Drinking rules for Runequest 6
Tavern themes
Greatly expanded activity at bar table
Tavern names for cities
Tavern names for ports
Room quirks
State of intoxication
Drinks menus provided and can be added to taverns
Drunkenness table for the patrons of the bar
Bars to visit tonight

Bar at a port city
Bar at Fonrit
Bar at Monster Island Settlement
Gimpy's at Pavis on a Quiet Night
Loud Lilina's at Pavis on a Rough Night
There is usually always the big guy to oppose you - the big barbarian in the corner, the bodyguard of the boss, the sergeant. He could be just the really big and strong one the big Wolf Pirate, the blacksmith, the strongest man in the tribe. Now there are templates for a few of these at various levels

Bison Nomad, Storm Bull worshipper - the strongest guy in the camp
Primitive Islander Veteran Warrior, Strong Man
Fonritian Slave Soldier Bodyguard - Initiate of Evukindu
He could be also the guy nobody likes to fight - the unstoppable one - the only undefeated champion in the history of gladiator fights - the Tigris of Gaul, he could be Onslaught, Conan the Cimmerian, Marv in the Sin City, Kull of Atlantis - basically a fighter at the top of his game - does not use much magic but just the physical skills.Here is a version of one such. The version might not fit the power level of your game so tune up accordingly if needed.


Elf, troll,dwarf, dragonewt and eastern weapons (non official versions) have been added to the selection of weapons. Have you wanted to roll a disorder keg down the corridor against the attacking trolls - here is your chance. Volley of blunderbuss fire to clear out the too far extended tunnels of the Sazdorf clan - fire away. Have you wished to bash in the skull of these pesky Mostali aberrations with your troll maul - your wish has come true. Have you wanted to draw your klanth and embed into the stealers of draconic secrets - that can be done now. Have your Vormaini pirates missed their katana, naginata and the long forgotten yari - now they are here. Yari-nage, Chokin, utuma - all exist now. You can select now two new categories in the templates - Gloranthan and Eastern weapons.

The weapon calculations now also take into account the size of the wielder.

https://notesfrompavis.wordpress.com/2015/01/17/rq-encounter-goes-to-town-to-check-out-the-taverns-and-bars/

A long time gaming buddy of mine Tom Zunder wrote such a great post on his Gaming Tavern forum that I asked his permission to reblog it also in https://notesfrompavis.wordpress.com/2015/01/14/guest-post-back-under-the-glowline/ There is so much choice that we friends of Glorantha have now. So here is his post - enjoy.

Uz of Shadows Dance - Trollball and Other Troll Pursuits from Dagori Inkarth

It is time to return to Dagori Inkarth and visit the famed Skyfall Lake and see the Uz at their best - at a Trollball match.RQ Encounter Generator will generate stats for more trolls. Based on "Into the Troll Realms" which contains the two famous Trollball teams here is a way to create your own Trollball teams with the rules tuned for RQ6. Full rules exist in the "Into the Troll Realms" but an abbreviated version will be found with the "Trollball Staff"

Dark Troll, Trollball Blocker
Dark Troll, Trollball Passer
Dark Troll, Trollball Alternate
Dark Troll, Trollball Catcher
Great Troll, Trollball Goalie
Party: Trollball team
Party: Trollball staff
Should you anger your hosts they might set a pursuit pack on you or two.
Troll Pursuit Pack
Argan Argar Troll Hunters
Wolf Spiders
Should you escape the hunters - you might encounter
Troll Caravan that has been expanded quite a bit
Giant Maggot
Superior Trollkin
Food Trollkin
Food Trollkin, Unarmed
Trollkin Warrior - Runt
Fighting Fungus (Voralan)
Most of the trolls have now been updated with the "Hate the Sun", "Vulnerable to Iron" and other abilities needed.

You will find more troll parties and enemies with filters Uz and Uz lands.

notesfrompavis.wordpress.com/2015/01/09/uz-of-shadows-dance-trollball-and-other-troll-pursuits-from-dagori-inkarth/

Read more: http://gringlespawnshop.proboards.com/thread/410/rq6-encounter-tool?page=2#ixzz3OM9SLd2G

The cover is awesome and will of course put the product on the purchase list as soon as it is available. Can't wait to get to see the monsters and they will likely appear at one point in the RQ Encounter tool crowdsourced or otherwise..

You can do quite reasonably RQ6 with Glorantha https://notesfrompavis.wordpress.com/2014/04/10/starting-a-glorantha-rq6-campaign-before-adventures-in-glorantha/

Many of the creatures are already available from RQ Encounter for example check: https://notesfrompavis.wordpress.com/2014/12/25/obviously-unbalanced-chaos-in-dorastor/ 

Will take a look if there is something specific missing for Shadows on the Borderlands - which was a fantastic place to do some years back when we did it with the old rules. 

All of the cults have interim version here for Rq6 : https://notesfrompavis.wordpress.com/category/cult/main-page-cult/

RQ Encounter is now returning to the roots by taking a trip thru memory lane to Snakepipe Hollow

Back in the very early days there was a wonderful scenario for Runequest called Snakepipe Hollow and then RQ Adventures did a return to the Snakepipe Hollow 20 years ago. For Runequest 6 one would surely need worthy opponents in Snakepipe Hollow. For nostalgia's (and education's sake) added the missing enemies. Many of the ones were already existing and created just a tag for them. Here are few - updated for RQ6 - some of them are somewhat deadlier than in the original.

Both Hands of Chaos are it again.

Clawed Hand (they are almost always encountered singly) and the Left Clawed Hand of Chaos is more often on the move
There is now a Malia Service with Broos and lots of Sickness Spirits. This caused a tuning of the sickness spirits so that they contain now all the information of the sickness spread with the spirit.
Chaos Snakes also have a party now and they have been updated.
Gorps, there are lots of Gorps and also Manlings, where those two exist - Pocharngo is not far behind so updated the Slithering Pocharngo party
Colossal Breeder Gorp
Micro Gorp
Exploder Gorp
Regenerating Gorp
Paralyzing Gorp
Glue Gorp and of course
Diseased Gorp
Giant, 12 meter in Snakepipe Hollow
There are a few obscure ones that have not been seen in publications since Snakepipe Follow like

Chaos Pit Monster
Veralzi
Some existing parties have been updated and placed into Snakepipe Hollow. Use a filter with name "Nest of Chaos" in Party Encounters and press the "Do you Feel Lucky" button - you'll see a party appropriate for the Heart of Chaos in Snakepipe Hollow. It will include among other parties

Broo Raiders and Broos on the Road for Ragnaglar and Thed.
Dark Troll Hunting Party and a war party
Dragonewt Ambassador, Expedition, Revenge Mission and Dragonewts on Warpath
Ogre Trading Caravan and an Ogre Hunting Party
Some desperate Sartarites with Sartar Earthshakers
Scorpionmen Raiding parties
Unruly Giants
Thanatari Headhunting Mission from nearby Engoli tribe
Tusk Rider party and Urain Foul Wind Party

https://notesfrompavis.wordpress.com/2015/01/06/back-to-the-roots-returning-to-snakepipe-hollow/

First Encounter batch of 2015 for RQ6. 

We broke a milestone during the last few days. There are now more than 1600 templates to be generated in the RQ Encounter tool.

Here are a few enemies and encounters found in Griffin Mountain done via RQ Encounter tool. Quite a few of the Balazar encounters already existed but here are a few additions.

• Elasmosaur
• Water Wyrm and Rune Level Water Wyrm
• Warrior of the Wood
• Issaries Rune priest giant
• 6 Meter tall giant in Gonn Orta's Castle
• Party at Gonn Orta
• Gaper
• Citadel Warrior, Yelmalio Initiate
• Citadel Warrior Sergeant
• Party: Citadel Warrior Rune Party
• Party: Citadel Warrior Party
• Trollkin skeleton
• Great Troll Skeleton
• Mistress Race Troll Mummy
• Yelmalio Rune lord in Balazar
• Baboon, Shaman of Daka Fal
• Baboon War Party
• Giant 10, 8, 6, 4 meter
• Party: Unruly Giant Party
• Ogre Trading Caravan

For Dorastor

• Mist Giant
• Oonai

For Uzlands (Dagori Inkarth, Halikiv etc)

• Karrg Beetle
• Watch Beetle
• Mistress Race Troll

For Prax

• Ostrich
• Snake Spirits
• Snake Spirit society with shamans and spirit worshippers
• Oasis People Snake Shamans and spirit worshippers
• Oasis People rabble
• Oasis People farmers

http://notesfrompavis.wordpress.com/2014/12/27/return-to-griffin-mountain-and-balazar/

Took a tour to Dorastor and created a few templates for missing creatures from the wonderfully unbalanced (in so many ways) from the original book on Dorastor. Some of the enemies can be used outside Dorastor as well though many are very specific to Dorastor. Some of these are quite deadly so take care. 

RQ Encounter Tool update:

Bring Out Your Dead

RQ Encounter generator encounters have tuning related to characteristics and abilities. 

Following enemies have been tuned

http://notesfrompavis.wordpress.com/2014/12/06/rq6-encounter-tuning/
 

September update:

All of the Gloranthan Cult One Pagers are now available in a single file pdf as well. http://notesfrompavis.wordpress.com/2014/08/12/gloranthan-cult-one-pagers-get-pdf-of-all-cults

All of the Gloranthan Cult One Pagers for RQ6 are now available as a zip file in
https://notesfrompavis.wordpress.com/2014/08/04/gloranthan-cult-one-pagers-for-rq6-get-compressed and on the main page http://notesfrompavis.wordpress.com/2014/05/11/gloranthan-cult-onepagers-main-page

Here are some charts that I made that have been useful for my Rq6 campaign.

Combat Flow - Added a small chart for combat flow and pointers to relevant rules sections based on great discussion in the design mechanism forums. 

The Combat Special Effects for Offensive combines all the special effects for the offensive one quick reference to see what you can do when hitting something.

The Combat Special Effects for Defensive does the same for defensive.  

New: Both Special Effects charts have been regrouped to hold related effects close together. 

Healing and Wounds in RQ6 covers what happens to you when you get a wound and how to recover.

Diminish Effect On Characteristics has the goods on what can that pesky diminish spell do to you or your opponent.

http://notesfrompavis.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/rq6-charts-and-tables/

http://notesfrompavis.wordpress.com/2014/07/29/grazers-are-here-cult-one-pagers-update/

Updated with the Army Activity by Homeland chart from WF15. All raids and invasions noted by area.

http://notesfrompavis.wordpress.com/2014/07/23/gloranthan-timelines-generational-perspective/

Thanks.

updated with Elder Wilds and Wyrms Footnotes 15 Dragon Pass dates.  

In my campaign I have long wanted a view of Gloranthan history from a perspective of an ordinary people who might only think about just a few years back, in my father's day, when my grandfather was young, when my great-grandfather was initiated.

At the same I wanted to see what was happening at other regions at the time. Created the database for the calendar information and wanted to share a generational perspective for the Gloranthan history.

Now your Sartarite NPC or your character can say that the Moon worshippers finally got us when my father was young. My grandfather died with the last true king of Sartar - Salinarg.  My grandfather had seen the opening of the seas and the Sun Worshippers receiving their land and starting to construct their temple.

Currently my campaign has some seafaring parts so I wanted to know when closing was in effect overall and in particular areas.

Almost all the dates and history information are compiled from the Guide, Kingdom of Sartar and the new Pavis book.

The generation is defined to be 25 years which might be a bit high for barbarian cultures but would work for civilized. The base year in the years ago is 1625. The table contains event per year for all areas, how many generations ago it happened, how many years ago it happened and whether closing was in effect at the time.

http://notesfrompavis.wordpress.com/2014/07/23/gloranthan-timelines-generational-perspective/